5 False Versions of Jesus People Are Falling For

Have you been fooled or misled?

By Lesli White

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Sometimes, those who are new to faith or lack a biblical foundation, have inaccurate ideas of who Jesus is and what He is all about. We live in a culture that presents so many versions of Jesus that many believers begin to make Him into who they think He is or who they want Him to be. Jesus warned us that in the last days false versions of Jesus would arise who would masquerade as the Messiah and claim to be the Savior of the world. “Jesus answered and said to them: ‘Take heed that no one deceives you.' For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5). Shortly before His crucifixion, Jesus preached His great message regarding profound events that would occur at the end of the age just prior to His Second Coming. Among those events, He said, would be false prophets and false Christs. Jesus also emphasized that these fake versions of Jesus will perform great signs and miracles and deceive man. Many Christians believe that as long as they believe in Jesus, they are shielded from these fake versions of Jesus or shielded from the deceptions of the last day, when in fact, these deceivers are not easy to identify. Jesus says that the deceptions of these false versions of Jesus are so carefully planned and so skillfully carried out, that even God’s chosen ones would be deceived. The only time this isn’t possible is when we keep our focus on the real Jesus. Here are five false versions of Jesus people are falling for.